At 7 p.m. Wednesday, teens will explore race relations, violence, sexuality and ancestry in a performance piece titled “Looking Behind the Mask,” presented by the African American and Jewish Teen Theater Project of the Center for Jewish Living and Learning of the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay.
At 2 p.m. Sunday, May 3, human rights educators from Amnesty International will demonstrate ways to raise human rights awareness in young people during a panel discussion, “Teaching Human Rights.” Student docents from the Holocaust education class at the Holocaust Center of Northern California will read their award-winning essays.
The Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco will sing Holocaust resistance songs, labor and protest songs at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 17. They will also perform an original Yiddish cantata about the civil rights movement written by a chorus founding member. Knud Dyby, a Danish rescuer now in his 80s, will speak with Mira Shelub, a Holocaust survivor from Poland during the program titled “Resistance, a Program for Families.”
The film “Not in Our Town,” the story of the Billings, Mont., response to hatred and bigotry, will screen at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. Leading a discussion will be producers of the film from The Working Group and Jack Weinstein, regional program director of Facing History and Ourselves, a national educational and teacher development organization whose work focuses on the lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide.
“The Courage to Care,” about those who hid children during the Nazi occupation of France, will screen at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 24. Paulette Fink, a French Resistance worker during the Holocaust and a director of French orphanages, will discuss her personal experiences after the screening.
Finally, storyteller Megumi will present “My Grandma’s Shells” and “Through the Eyes of a Teenager,” stories about the Japanese-American internment experience, in a program presented in honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 31.
In addition, as an ongoing program, Holocaust survivors share their experiences and answer questions every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Resource Area. Also, an exhibit of international artwork by children from Croatia, Chechnya and other Eastern European countries will be on view courtesy of the International Children’s Art Museum.
For information, call (415) 561-5065.